Here we have a rather extraordinary looking pair of models for Infinity. Ariadna will be getting two bikers and two bikes which make up the Desperadoes!

“Carrying close quarters combat weapons and riding roaring motorbikes, these Antipode hunters are the new gunslingers of the USAriadnan border. A real danger for their enemies… and for the rest of the society too.”

What do you think of this pair? I think they are looking like an awesome group of rebels that require some incredible metal music when they hit the tabletop. What music track do you reckon they listen to?

Battles in Infinity are supposed to be covered up as gang violence etc, it’s a lot easier to blame a few hairy dudes on bikes on “gangs” than it is to convince people the 12 foot robot with a jetpack is Mall Security…

If you find yourself asking “do I need The Man With No Name and Easy Rider battling Space Ninja’s, Greek Hero Androids and Werewolves?” and thinking “No, this is silly” then you might be taking Infinity a little too seriously.

The rules aren’t out yet to the best of my knowledge, although you’re probably looking at similar points / profiles to Kum Riders, albeit with slightly different special rules. They certainly fit with the aesthetic of USAriadna.

I don’t see why these models would put someone off Infinity tbh although if you have a problem with bikes, then USAriadna probably isn’t the one for you. You can build a force in all the other factions without even having to consider taking a bike.

Only criticism is they don’t seem to have dismounted versions, most likely profile looking similar in points costs to Kum Bikers, but with heavy pistols and maybe a point of armour more in place of dogged and possibly specialist options.

I see synthetik’s point about the minis. Infinity was suppose to be a game of super dirty wet works black ops revolving around small elite teams of soldiers. TAGs and things like them where much fewer and far between when the game started out.

That being said though, this game has grown and evolved, and has always had crazy things like werewolves and unibike riders. Its all part of the fun. I personally enjoy these models for the spice they bring.

on that note though, I predict in about 3 or 5 years, infinity will cease to be a tight-nit skirmish game and will turn into a unit on unit pitched battle game like Warmahordes.

If you said to me that you could see an Infinity supplement that allowed for bigger forces (although at 300 points, you can get some pretty big forces already), then I might believe you, because I’m sure there are people out there who have large amounts of a faction purely because they like collecting / painting the models.

But N3 Infinity ceasing to exist? It would require something really wacky going on there. Rules being completely redone, model production, hiring of a heck of more staff, etc… I can’t see such a thing happening within 5 years.

Anyway, bikes existed before. Yu Jing had the Aragoto Senkenbutai for a long time now, obviously inspired by Akira (not a surprise considering the close thematic ties of Infinity and anime).

As I said before, to me, these guys are perfectly in keeping with the USAriadna range, and to a lesser extent the Ariadna range, a faction who are low tech on an inhospitable planet. If you want a more blackops futuristic tech faction, then that is already catered for considerably (Nomads, Yu Jing, PanO, etc..).

I do not think that will happen. Have met the CB guys (some of them multiple times) and mass combat does not interest any of them or fit in with their intentions for the range. They plan to stay in metal indefinitely for one. And they are awear of the limitations of a squad based game at playing in the time of terrain heavy and interactive way. Link teams are the closest thing to squads you will see. And they have also said that bikes and TAGs are going to be the only vehicles in the game with maybe some non combat ones at some point for scenarios and not armies. Drop pods are an example. They just act as a pick up extraction in some game types.

it’s funny to see people slam these but “ooh and ahhh” the gates of Antares Jetbikes… Infinity sculpts are hype-rdetailed and full of character…Antares look like something from 10 years ago…stiff and chunky…and generic.

I reckon a dune buggy or some sort of four wheel drive, all terrain, vehicle would have suited these a bit more given the look and background not to mention differentiated them from the other bike minis available from Corvus Belli already.

I think the spec ops thing is more a PanO/YuJing/Aleph and maybe Nomads thing. Ariadna is mostly defending their planet and fighting off Antipodes. Bikers on border patrol fits perfectly with their fluff.